HotEnough? Yes, Yes We Are. Thanks for Asking.

What's the biggest problem plaguing online dating? Sexual predators? Incompatibility? Nope. The biggest roadblock with today's Internet dating is a lack of hotness, mean-spirited concepts, and a membership system that weeds out users like jocks choosing teams for elementary...

What's the biggest problem plaguing online dating? Sexual predators? Incompatibility? Nope. The biggest roadblock with today's Internet dating is a lack of hotness, mean-spirited concepts, and a membership system that weeds out users like jocks choosing teams for elementary school kickball. Enter HotEnough.com, a dating site based on the principle that unattractive people should be shunned from society, or, at the very least, removed from the gene pool. As the company's CEO, Jason Pellegrino, puts it, slightly less fascistically, "Most guys, and women I know, judge heavily on looks alone. And initially, when you're surfing an online dating profile, what more do you have to go by? Do you really care what the last book was that someone read?"
Of course not, Jason. Books are for ugly, pudgy people who smell, and are too busy spending their time indoors researching the cure for cancer to go do body shots off of exotic dancers in Cabo for spring break. Thankfully, the HotEnough site has a very strict rating system in place that ought to send the losers back to Uglytown, USA, where they belong. Applicants must send in three photos, including one full body shot, in order to be considered. Said photos are voted on by site administrators and existing members. Anyone scoring between eight and 10 (after 25 votes are tallied) can take a leap into the hot pool of hotastic hotness.

As staff members of the world's leading computer publication, it almost goes without saying that we're prime HotEnough fodder, but instead of clogging HotEnough's pipes with too large an influx of hotrrific hotasity, we've decided to send a single candidate to rep PC Magazine and AppScout. That, loyal readers, is where you come in. Eight PC Mag staff members will enter the realm of hotness, only one will prove hotical enough to survive. Photos after the jump, and you can enter your choice in the comments section of this post--that is, if you can stand the heat.

Voting will be closed on Wednesday, December 20th. Merry Hotness, everyone.

Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including Engadget, Laptop, and PCMag (where he served as Senior Editor). Most recently, he was as the Managing Editor of TechTimes.com. His writing has appeared in Spin, Wired, Playboy, Entertainment Weekly, The Onion, Boing Boing, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast and various other publications. He hosts the weekly Boing Boing interview podcast RiYL, has appeared as a regular NPR contributor and shares his Queens apartment with a rabbit named Lucy.
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